Southwestern Public Health on Friday urged residents in parts of St. Thomas to boil their water before use after samples tested positive for bacteria. The advisory, issued at 4 p.m., applies to all users on East Avenue, Chester Street, West Avenue, Devonshire Place, Balflour Street, Ada Street, Parkside Drive, Bell Drive, Henry Street, Glenbanner Street, […]

London police are investigating what they called a “swarming-type assault” after two boys were followed and assaulted by a group wearing ski masks in the city's northeast end.

A six-year-old boy was rescued from Lake Huron after drifting away from shore on what Ontario Provincial Police described as an “inflatable ring.” The child, who police said was wearing a “personal floatation device,” drifted from shore near Black’s Point Beach, south of Goderich, on Monday just after noon, police said. The boy was located […]

St. Thomas police are urging caution after they say three people lost $30,000 or more each in cryptocurrency fraud incidents that were reported to them within less than a week.

A Southwestern Ontario public health unit at the epicentre of a provincewide measles outbreak has reported the fewest new weekly cases in months. The four new measles cases reported by Southwestern Public Health – the health unit for Oxford and Elgin counties, Woodstock and St. Thomas – between June 12 and 19, mark the lowest […]